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About Developer · **Released**: 04-26-2000

Hello, John...

How difficult would be to a user ( on a hypothetical extreme need ) to alter ( hack ) vBulletin in order to make it work with Oracle? I didn't see your code yet, as you know...

#2 04-26-2000, 07:16 AM

I am working with someone over the next few weeks to release an OFFICIAL Oracle version hopefully. It all depends on how easily Oracle accepts the MySQL syntax.

John

#3 04-27-2000, 04:48 AM

> ...to release an OFFICIAL Oracle version hopefully.

Thank you, John...

[ /me jumping up and down wildly ]

#4 08-13-2000, 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by John
I am working with someone over the next few weeks to release an OFFICIAL Oracle version hopefully

Not that I care, but I guess this was put on hold?
Or will Oracle be supported in the much anticipated "summer release"?

#5 08-13-2000, 02:23 AM

How about Sybase? It is considerably cheaper than an Oracle system and offers much of the same features / stability / etc.

#6 08-13-2000, 04:59 PM

thetakerfan,

I believe John's working on the Oracle version, but it is unlikely to be released as a feature of the "summer release".

All the best,

James

#7 08-13-2000, 05:39 PM

> Not that I care, but I guess this was put on hold?

It is my entire fault, actually...

To avoid unnecessarily absorbing John from the mainstream vB development for such a ?minor? improvement, I should have provide him with an Oracle server to play with ( and a couple of 8i developers to help things out ), two months ago... However, due to some internal corporate struggles I failed miserably (so far). Well, I will wait John to return from his development marathon on the backwoods to propose and discuss some alternatives...

mrogish : Oracle support, LDAP compliance, and some others specific features were proposed just to help the vB acceptance in the corporate market.

#8 08-13-2000, 05:47 PM

Aldreis,
Ok then, I just know that there are people (me for instance!

) who want more features than mySQL can provide and can't afford the $50 - 100K price tag that Oracle 8i Enterprise offers -- Sybase offers an attractive DB at around $10K, which is *much* easier on the wallet.

As a matter of fact I've already started working on a port for Sybase (anyone want to help? huh?

) -- it exposed a lot of really inefficent things in mySQL -- for some reason mySQL doesn't care about "NOT NULL" columns in inserts, non-standard column types, that sort of thing.

#9 08-13-2000, 09:07 PM

well, according to their calculator, an oracle license would be fairly cheap for my Dual 600 machine. Only $520,000 for a single machine license.

Please tell me I did something wrong????

#10 08-13-2000, 11:27 PM

(Disclaimer: Oracle is cool. They make a good, albeit expensive, product. This is meant to be sarcastic, so if you recently spent over $100,000 on Oracle 8i Enterprise and you are all flustered over this, deal with it)
Wow, what a deal!

You must be using some of their wacky pricing schemes! On an internet box you have to use the UPU -- Universal Ripping-You-Off Unit.

For us (dual PIII-750):
1500 UPU = $150,000
Minus a volume discount (some random number so it isn't a total rape): $37,500

Total: $112,500

Let me repeat:
WOW! WHAT A DEAL!

And the weird thing is, I was talking with an Oracle tech to see Sybase ASE vs Oracle 8i Enterprise and he said they were virtually identical. That doesn't explain the factor of ten price difference!